This week we discussed whether "ops" engineers should know how to code, and if so, to what degree. We went into languages, frameworks, when and if should you start as a junior. We shared our views on everything around "Dev" as it relates to "Ops" when it comes to actual positions within a software company. Things mentioned: The Grand Budapest Hotelhttps://github.com/spf13/cobrahttps://github.com/spf13/viperhttps://click.palletsprojects.com/en/8.1.x/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's...

Is Amazon dropping serverless? What was the trigger to the huge backlash on serverless and microservices of the past few weeks? We discussed AWS's blog post, DHH comments, Kelsey Hightower response and more! Amazon's Prime Video moving away from serverless: https://www.primevideotech.com/video-streaming/scaling-up-the-prime-video-audio-video-monitoring-service-and-reducing-costs-by-90DHH blog post:...

This week we had the pleasure of discussing EC2! The basic building block of AWS has so much going on around it so we made an effort keeping it short (did not do all that well if you compare to previous episodes 😉) Links: EC2 https://aws.amazon.com/ec2The SSM plugin for AWS CLI (Using SSM connect from a teminal)Golang Telegram bot API - https://github.com/go-telegram-bot-api/telegram-bot-apiGORM: The Golang ORM - https://gorm.io/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog:...

In this episode we discussed S3, which is not all that "simple"! Policies, web hosting, tiering, smart tiering, Glacier, Cloudfront, indexing and MORE! Links and things mentioned:  S3 search and access throughput with prefixes: https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonS3/latest/userguide/optimizing-performance.htmlURL shortener with S3 redirect functionhttps://github.com/ducaale/xhhttps://thebrowser.company/https://brave.com/https://minbrowser.org/Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog:...

This week we discussed AWS IAM, on the infrastructure level, application level, what are users, roles, profiles, permission sets, temporary credentials and MORE! Links promised: SSO Sync for Google to AWS SSO: https://github.com/awslabs/ssosyncTools / Experience of the week: Omer mentioned "nocode": https://github.com/kelseyhightower/nocodeMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this episode we discussed all-things VPC! From the very basics of structure and best practices, deep down to wiring the internals, hacks tips and lots of other stuff. Things we mentioned: Omer's list of K8s ingress controllers: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/191WWNpjJ2za6-nbG4ZoUMXMpUK8KlCIosvQB0f-oq3k/edit#gid=907731238Meir's stack for this week: https://nestjs.com & https://vitejs.devMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel:...

We talked about container from the ground up! Is it only Docker in the space (no!). What are they for, why they're also incredible for local work, how we like to work with them. Why they're amazing for production purposes and can be found everywhere. Meir talked about his experience with Nest.js (Omer: I'm definitely adding a +1 here, Nest is amazing!): https://nestjs.com Omer mentioned Neovim's collaboration plugin: https://github.com/jbyuki/instant.nvim Meir's blog:...

This week we talked about backups, what do they mean to us, how do we apply it as a principle, what it boils down to and more. Enjoy listening! In the tools section Omer mentioned Testcontainers: https://github.com/testcontainers/testcontainers-go Neovim remote container: https://github.com/jamestthompson3/nvim-remote-containers Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this episode we discussed "scale". What does it mean in the context of operations / devlopment, but also in regards to management and internal systems. We talked about empowering engineers to make decisions, prepare systems for you joiners but even more importantly preparing systems to scale to handle additional load and company growth! Tools mentioned: Omer mentioned https://score.devMeir mentioned https://github.com/GAM-team/GAMMeir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog:...

This week we talked about Git! The version control all (most) of us are using daily. How did it start? What's with the name?  What should developers know? Have you ever wondered how to delete stuff form the root of the tree? Maybe how to pin point a commit that introduced a bug? We had a fun chat around functionality, productivity, do's and don'ts. Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

We discussed AI and ChatGPT, how (and if) we're using in our daily work. What we think it's good for and what not so much, and we see this world progressing and evolving! Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this episode we covered Observability! From log collection through metric time-series, through the systems they're stored and to analyzing the data, coming up with insights, and understanding system and application behavior! Experience / Tool of the week: Meir mentioned working with Make - the evergreen scripting tool that supports application builds (https://www.gnu.org/software/make/)Omer suggested Just (https://github.com/casey/just) as the modern Rust alternative Omer's findings:Since...

In this episode we talked about FinOps. What is it, but beyond the buzz, what does it mean to be financially aware. What are good systems to put in place, metrics to track, tools to use and concepts to adopt. Trivy: https://www.aquasec.com/products/trivy/ Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

Serverless is one of those topics we can have an entire season just surrounding this one architecture option. We tried packing as much as possible to one short talk but we can (should?) probably do another follow up talk about advanced Serverless options we didn't touch this time. We started off talking about how it is perceived by many, then went into what it really is, and even some of its inner workings intricacies or what's "under the hood". Some of what's mentioned: AWS Lambda,...

This week we brought up the recently promoted and latest-buzz: Platform Engineering. What is it? How does this differ from DevOps / SRE? What does it actually mean? Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this episode we discussed all-things application security; from scanning, to designing with security in mind, through OWASP and sources of information we feel engineers in the world of dev / ops should be aware of and familiar with! We talked about: OWASP Top 10 - https://owasp.org/www-project-top-tenGit leaks - https://github.com/zricethezav/gitleaks12 Factor - https://12factor.netScanners: [Python Bandit: https://bandit.readthedocs.io/en/latest, Go:...

In our 7th episode we discussed all-things cloud-security: NACLs, security groups, VPCs, usage of public and private subnets, secure tunneling, whats important to keep an eye on, and which layer is used and when! Things mentioned: AWS, K8s, Network security, VPC, Subnets, routing, secure access, running in private networks Links as promised:  K8s limits: https://home.robusta.dev/blog/stop-using-cpu-limits AWS security group rules real time application:...

In this episode of DevOps Topeaks, we discussed what DevOps actually is (spoiler alert: not a job title) and which qualities we're looking for in DevOps candidates. We also talked about our approach to picking up new technologies and consume information in a world of constant stream of data. We hope you enjoy! Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this episode to DevOps Topeaks we discussed how we think CI runners should be handled; where they should run, how, and ways to secure, scale and manage them efficiently. As usual we drifted into further topics like cleaning container images, saving disk space, efficient use of cache, secure connection to instances with SSM rather than a VPN and lots more! Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this session of #topeaks, we talked about how to choose a container orchestrator. We compared the local development process across different container orchestrators, when to choose a proprietary solution vs a standalone K8s, and dabbled with getting into Hashicorp's Nomad and the why's Meir's blog: https://meirg.co.il Omer's blog: https://omerxx.com Telegram channel: https://t.me/espressops

In this session of #topeaks, we'll talk about container orchestrators, when to use which service or tool, scaling in-out-up-down, node management when scaling, and which metrics we should use for scaling. In the next session, we'll cover more about this awesome topeak! Important additional information on autoscaling ECS and EKS nodes, starting from ECS: AWS offers now an automated way to scale and ECS cluster nodes in and out. The way it works, is by creating a Capacity Provider based on a...

Our first #topeaks session discusses approaches to aligning CI code across a multi-repo structure. We touch on CI templates, scripting, central parameter store, GitLab CI, GitHub, Jenkins, Dagger, and more.

In this session of #topeaks, we'll talk about how to provision internal services and protect them from external users (non-employees).